In my eyes, the 40k strong WordPress.org free plugin repository is one of the things that made WordPress the hugely platform it is today. That is why I love building free WordPress plugins and I have built quite a few of them over the years.

Problem is, I never seem to have enough time to take care of them. Bills have to be paid, so paid work somehow always takes precendence. And, since I’ve received less than $50 worth of donations over the years, my open source plugins have to take a back seat. Continue reading Help me Build Free Plugins

Whenever someone brings up Jetpack in a discussion, one thing is inevitable – someone calling it a bloated thing that is solely responsible for slowing their website, the whole internet and causing the global warming. The same thing recently happened at Advanced WordPress Facebook group, an it got me thinking.

Today, I’d like to introduce our latest addition to the 40k+ pile of plugins in WordPress.org repository – Content Cards. As it says in the description, this plugin makes ordinary web links great by making it possible to embed a beautiful Content Card to link to any web site.